Original work by Lionel Paul Onel, primitive art, voodoo art / HAITI

Loas" (HAITI) *** 60 x 90 cm ***

LIONEL PAUL ONEL, BORN IN 1966 IN HAITI

Mixed media, recovery and collages on canvas, 1997 49x79cm Lionel Paul Onel, born in 1966 in Haiti. Lionel Paul known as ONEL (recycler painter with strong symbolism). Onel belongs to the youngest generation (3rd wave) of the Saint Soleil movement of Soissons la Montagne. He is the only one to recycle the textile he uses in collage with acrylic paint. With Stivenson Magloire, he is one of those who go beyond the traditional modes of figuration of the movement to propose their own forms. 1966 - Birth in Soissons La Montagne of a farmer father and a farmer and trader mother. 1972 - Is introduced to painting in a small school in the locality where Tiga (Jean Claude Garoute), founder of the Saint Soleil movement, had introduced cultural rotation. Exhibitions 1997 - Cultural Festival Saint Soleil in Soissons, collective fresco Exhibition TEXACO, 75th Anniversary, "Crafts and recovery", Kinam Hotel and local of the Ministry of Culture, Foundation Culture Creation and Les Ateliers Jérôme. 1998 - Exhibition following the World Bank headquarters in Port-au-Prince and Washington. - Exhibition Onel and Tiga, hall of the Hôtel du département de Nantes, Conseil Général de la Loire Atlantique - Exhibition "Onel, Germeil, Payas", Les Ateliers Jérôme, as part of the Forum AfricAmerica, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1999 - Exhibition at the Galerie Antoinette Jean, Paris, France Individual exhibition at the Institute of Women Entrepreneurs (IFE) Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 2000 - Exhibition "Identity of artists from the Caribbean and Latin America", Espace de Retz in Paris, BID. - Exhibition "Nouveaux Saint Soleil", French Institute of Haiti with No 205, special Revue Conjonction. 2005 - Exhibition in Pau, France, as part of the "Rencontres Congo Kinshasa et Haïti", organized by Carlo A.Célius for Laval University. 2006 - Art and Recycling, Duo with Joseph Casséus, Les Ateliers Jérôme, Pétion Ville, Haiti 2007 - Fresco at the Monument to Tiga, in Soissons. Contest - Winner of the poster competition announcing "Les rendez-vous de l'Erdre", Nantes. - Winner of the IDB competition, "Identities of artists from the Caribbean and Latin America.", Publication Exhibition Catalogue. Permanent exhibition: Les Ateliers Jérôme, Angle rue Lambert et Rebecca, Pétion Ville, Haïti Galerie Marassa, Rue Lamarre, Pétion Ville Haïti Galerie Bleu, Rue Lamarre, Pétion Ville, Haïti Galerie Nader, Rue Grégoire, Pétion Ville, Haïti Galerie Bourbon Lally, Bourdon, Haïti Galerie Antoinette Jean, rue St André des Arts, Paris, Galerie Creations Tropicales, Toulon, France, Hôtel Montana, Bourdon, Port-au-Prince Foundation Culture Creation Joseph Issa Nicole Lumarque Foundation Alliatiga IFE Foundation